Brainstorm session ideas:
- Mouse has brought plague with him.
- He’s oblivious to the fact that this has happened.
- Give audience clues that it’s the plague but don’t let them know straight away. Eg, flags at half mast, he coughs a bit, arrives on ship, etc.
- Visuals get darker and grittier as story progresses. Colour palette changes from slightly happier colours in intro to darker, more brooding colours at end.
- Intro is bright, fast moving.
- Middle is more subdued colours.
- Ending is dark, overwhelming.
- If we have time throw in some sly references to other students’ flims.
INTRO MONTAGE:
- Reveals who he is. Brave hero mouse.
- Quick shots of him generally being heroic and brave.
- Helping old lady. (don’t know how to visualise this shot)
- Gets off a ship at dock by climbing along ropes holding ship to dock. Make it a brave tightrope walk. Plague clue???
- Smashing mouse trap to save girl mouse and gets kiss as reward. This can also be another clue that town is trying to kill rodents to stop plague. ???
- Quick shot of him sick/coughing. Plague clue???
- Shot of him slaying a dragon with his sword as per original script.
- Maybe some other shots of his heroic deeds.?????
- Sword out of stone
- Fighting puppets on a stage
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MIDDLE SEQUENCE:
- Transition from image of dragon with sword in its belly, to jigsaw puzzle of same image and Knight Mouse just finishing with last piece of puzzle.
- Knight mouse at home, now bored after finishing puzzle.
- Goes for walk down street because he doesn’t want to waste time doing nothing and staying still.
- Paper sign floats overhead, shadow falls on him. Paper eventually lands on him. He crawls out from under paper.
- He reads sign but misinterprets it as a call to arms.
- He runs off towards castle and we see what the sign reads: “King Wants Rats! Help Needed”.
END SEQUENCE
- Mouse runs thru shut castle gate.
- Cut to him running towards throne in king’s throne room.
- King points him out as per script.
- Pan across all king’s helpers/rat catchers as they gather around. All serious except 2 guys who are playing “Mouse Trap” board game. ??????
- One guy quickly steps on mouse and squishes him.
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